Clean It Up
UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Rob_Mac on September 16, 2014, 10:13:35 pm
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Trying to get finished on the car wash at Stanwell last week, part of the works was to clean the heavily stained car wash glass.
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We got rid of the calcium/limescale/cleaning residue build up, to a degree dealt with the hazing but could not get it back to sparkle quality.
We checked the state of your water and it turns out that you have a hard water reading of around 400ppm, at the very top end.
Get bottled water in mate!!
We could have used honing powders on this and mechanical polishing but the whole car wash probably wasn't worth the cost of going down this route.
Rob ;D
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All of the glass was exactly the same as the unit on the right hand side of the top picture.
Rob ;D
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Looks good to me rob, what did you use to get rid of the staining mate?
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Danny mate, give me a ring in the morning. I am looking into the viability of this as a service and for that reason don't want to give too much away at the moment.
Kevin
If I go down the mechanical agitation route on this I know I need graded honing powders, do you sell these for glass. Also what would be the best polishing unit?
Rob ;D
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Looks good to me rob, what did you use to get rid of the staining mate?
The Farrow system or Oxalic acid should work...it's lime scale and soap residue. Same 5hit thats in the bottom of your kettle(minus the soap).
60% of UK households are in hard water area..anything over 7 degrees clark is classed as "hard".
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As I said Danny. Give me a call in the morning.
Rob ;D
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Rob
Water down here is crap, only drink filtered water at home.
Looking good though Rob, How you liking sunny Stanwell? ;)
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Morning Rog
I got some accommodation, the previous week, for Matt in Stanwell village - that's a nice area, a little quiet as there doesn't seem to be much about till you get to Staines.
As I said I stayed in Chertsey, on the Caravan & camping site, on Bridge Road. We both stayed over there last week, taking advantage of the good weather.
Because we worked nights it was a case of sleeping till late and then waiting to go to work. I can never get used to nights (probably because I don't do enough). We decided to walk to the Wimpy one day, said it was a couple of miles so went down the river, cut a long story short, we were on the wrong side of it and ended doing a full loop back to Chertsey and still needed to eat. Got there in the end after 6 miles and then a 2 mile walk back.
There are some seriously big houses on that river and a cracking walk.
Bonus was there was a Snow & Rock store just round the corner and they were having a sale ;)
Downside - that bloody M25 again - AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is that one of your shopping places, the Tesco?
Rob ;D
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Tesco ? Waitrose more like ;)
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And home delivery ;D
Rob ;D
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Morning Rog
I got some accommodation, the previous week, for Matt in Stanwell village - that's a nice area, a little quiet as there doesn't seem to be much about till you get to Staines.
As I said I stayed in Chertsey, on the Caravan & camping site, on Bridge Road. We both stayed over there last week, taking advantage of the good weather.
Because we worked nights it was a case of sleeping till late and then waiting to go to work. I can never get used to nights (probably because I don't do enough). We decided to walk to the Wimpy one day, said it was a couple of miles so went down the river, cut a long story short, we were on the wrong side of it and ended doing a full loop back to Chertsey and still needed to eat. Got there in the end after 6 miles and then a 2 mile walk back.
There are some seriously big houses on that river and a cracking walk.
Bonus was there was a Snow & Rock store just round the corner and they were having a sale ;)
Downside - that bloody M25 again - AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is that one of your shopping places, the Tesco?
Rob ;D
No mate it's a sh*thole M&S or Waitrose so Carl was sort of right ;D
You had a great pub for food by Chertsey bridge "The Kingfisher"
M25 you get used to it living down here.
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We can't afford it mate.
I can see you sitting out there though, looking over the river, tweeds on, 12 bore over the arm. A brace of pheasant down by your feet ;)
Rob ;D
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Rob
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We can't afford it mate.
I can see you sitting out there though, looking over the river, tweeds on, 12 bore over the arm. A brace of pheasant down by your feet ;)
Rob ;D
What the Kingfisher?
Me in Tweeds? really Rob, you've met me jeans & T-Shirt yes, Tweeds :(
Wouldn't harm any animal or bird mate, some religious factions then that's a different matter.
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Danny mate, give me a ring in the morning. I am looking into the viability of this as a service and for that reason don't want to give too much away at the moment.
Kevin
If I go down the mechanical agitation route on this I know I need graded honing powders, do you sell these for glass. Also what would be the best polishing unit?
Rob ;D
Forget it mate you want this stuff its brilliant
http://miraclesealants.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=productdetails&virtuemart_product_id=134&Itemid=252
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Rob
Call the Rhinoman about the glass I have an amazing number of products that you can use on glass - depends how far you want to go with it.
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Have you a link Darren?
Rob ;D
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Kevin
Will they work for glass?
Rob ;D
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Have you a link Darren?
Rob ;D
Rob - we are importers of this kind of stuff - but mainly use it for ourselves - so no real links but I will e-mail you over a brochure/price list later